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Ugh, I dreamt that Talia al Ghul was detroying China. Storm and Kitty Pryde took her on, and there was an epic chase-fight in a mansion in Japan and I had a spy suit that talked to me in Casey Kasem's voice, which was a little weird, but I couldn't get anyone to exchange Canadian, American, or Chinese money to Japanese and my ex-wife (who only seemed to exist when I was a dude) thought I was dating again and broke into my house while I was away --

-- wait --

-- Storm and Kitty? It has just occurred to me that that's cross-company. *knocks on side of head*

Oh, yes, and baby Damian was there, and he had a tattoo of a hand on his chest, and he could fly, and he definitely had Talia's brown eyes. But then Talia started having totally blank skin-tone eye-holes framed by lashes, which was freaky enough that I was glad when Storm nearly set her on fire.

One of these days I will write a fic where (because the Thawne who cloned Thad from Bart added a little of his own DNA to make him, I dunno, Thawneier) Bart says to Inertia,

"Wow, you're even more inbred than I am."

Which is totally true, and I mean, Bart's family tree already loops back on itself.

On the other hand, since Iris was adopted, Bart and Wally aren't related by blood at all!

The more I read, the more I hate Cassie Sandsmark.

Okay, so, I know I said I didn't watch the first episode of Young Justice, but a little while after I posted that I discovered an undeleted copy on my netbook and figured, what the hell, might as well skip through until I at least see Superboy.

poisonivory was right, that's not Kon.

So, taking this Superboy as a different person, I have an issue. I saw a fanfic that stated that he's the Genemorph messiah. And he is. I know that from the first episode. Aside from how that's gonna be a tricky thing to handle in a cartoon aimed at the youth of America, I feel like they did that to give him some sort of hook to "be like Superman", since Superman=Jesus is a popular theme.

And just proves the writers have missed the point of Superman entirely.

I think mightygodking puts it best:

Superman isn’t a Jesus analogue because, unlike Jesus, his moral vision is not imposed. The word of Jesus is the word of God and therefore what he says goes, dictation straight from the Almighty. Superman is the exact opposite: a man whose moral vision comes not from a source exterior to humanity but from humanity itself, via Ma and Pa Kent, who are themselves immensely decent people. He ultimately isn’t a received savior, regardless of the origin of his powers; he’s Superman, the apotheosis of what human virtue can be.

Current Music: The Other Me - Frost*

So I finally get around to watching the first episode of Young Justice.

I made it 6 minutes and 16 seconds before I gave up.

Seriously, what is it with cartoons about superheroes these days that they all have to begin on an extremely negative vibe? Legion of Superheroes turned me off the same way.

Damn it, I didn't even get to see Kon.

SO! During One Year Later (the DC event), early on, Tai and I counted all the different Nightwings running around. There were at least 4 distinct individuals doing mututally exclusive things. One of them turned out to be Jason Todd, but as for the others...

TOO MANY DICKS ON THE DANCE FLOOR!

*roflmaoshih*

On the ride to work, an Elton John song inspired me to write a Legion fanfic, which got me thinking about Titans, and now I have a theory about what's going on in Robin.

Go figure, eh?

So, the last issue of Robin I read had Darla Aquista (who is dead) looking for Tim. She can make herself look human, but she has weird powers that maker her floaty and pale-skinned and she thinks might make her one of the bad guys.

Now, I don't have all the pertinent issues of Young Justice where what Secret really is is explained, but I know she was killed by her brother and that's how she got her powers. Which involved floaty ghostliness, and apparently she's supposed to be an incarnation of death... And she rejected it. I know Spectre was involved somehow, but Darkseid was the one who took her powers away and left her a normal, living human girl.

What the hell does Darkseid have to do with, I want to know.

And is this something like the Spectre, where there always is one? Is Darla the new Secret?

Or some other playing piece in the chaotification of magic in the DCU?

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: something by Telemann, Berlin Baroque Soloists

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Can't anybody trade dollars for yen?

Oh, Flash families.

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